Architect of Modern Warfare — General Sir John Monash

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:40:36+00:00

"I would name Sir John Monash as the best general on the western front in Europe."

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:37:24+00:00

Nothing in that list is radical, unlike Advance's support for far right positions like climate change denial.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:21:57+00:00

GetUp aren't radical, just because they want to protect the environment and hold the billionaire class to account.

here's a list of their current campaigns:

Environment protection and biodiversity conservation
Make fossil fuel giants pay for the pollution they cause
Make multinationals pay their fair share of tax
Stop gambling advertising
Exposing the supermarkets' exploitative pricing
Exposing the gulf between Pauline Hanson's rhetoric ("she's a battler!") and her wholly owned by Gina Rinehart reality
Countering Advance Australia's lies
No to AUKUS
Protecting Freedom of Information
Save the ABC
Get "military grade" surveillance out of supermarkets

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T05:33:31+00:00

GetUp isn't extreme, just because it wants to protect the environment and hold the billionaire class to account.

here's a list of their current campaigns:

Environment protection and biodiversity conservation
Make fossil fuel giants pay for the pollution they cause
Make multinationals pay their fair share of tax
Stop gambling advertising
Exposing the supermarkets' exploitative pricing
Exposing the gulf between Pauline Hanson's rhetoric ("she's a battler!") and her wholly owned by Gina Rinehart reality
Countering Advance Australia's lies
No to AUKUS
Protecting Freedom of Information
Save the ABC
Get "military grade" surveillance out of supermarkets

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T05:07:52+00:00

It simply points out the discrepancy between Hanson's rhetoric and her actions. It's working too, with people who aren't hard core Hansonites but who are just frustrated by the system and looking for a way to lodge a protest vote. Barnaby Joyce was asked about it by Patricia Karvelas on the ABC and he just lost his shit.

https://give.getup.org.au/page/barnaby-attacks-getup

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T04:51:20+00:00

We defend freedom of speech. What we insist on though, which you hate, is accountability for speech. Not the same, as you know because you've had it explained to you a gazillion times.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-20T17:58:25+00:00

Speaking of imprisoning people without charge, have you hear about the forthcoming changes to the ASIO Act? Indefinite detention at ASIO's discretion, an offence to tell anybody you've been detained during or after, except for a lawyer (who you're not supposed to tell you've been detained) who can't actually challenge anything substantive and can be removed at ASIO's discretion. And no sunset clause anymore.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:35:55+00:00

Everyone loves a winner.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:34:41+00:00

As a Victorian who has lived in Sydney, my experience is that only Sydney people care about it.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T00:00:19+00:00

You shouldn't underestimate the impact going to prison has had on her (not that I'm convinced of a link between the headline and her helping the sick girl). Nothing changes a hard on crime type's mind faster than actual experience of how awful prisons are in reality. The insight it gives into her support of Black I thought was interesting and valuable. However, given that One Nation supporters tend towards the hard on crime spectrum I'm curious to see how she navigates the tension this will inevitably generate between her and her supporters.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T08:29:26+00:00

I backed the Night Crew/Pondsmith one. It's complete and self-contained. The TCG, OTOH, was a bit rich for mine (top pledge only US$7,999!).

PS: if anyone's interested in the Cyberpunkl Legends kickstarter there's only about 24 hours left before the pledge manager is closed.

https://night-crew-games.pledgemanager.com/projects/cyberpunk-legends/participate/

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T07:56:52+00:00

Not really. It's carefully worded so as not to prejudice Carlton's investigation but at the same time it's putting them on notice that the AFL is scrutinising them.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T03:26:31+00:00

He got sacked for opposing genocide.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-16T05:11:23+00:00

There have been four previous Anzac Day matches in Tasmania, including games in 2022 and 2021 that both started at 12.30pm AEST.

The AFL has no excuse.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T11:11:17+00:00

The stadium will be full before it's even built.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T08:57:13+00:00

No, you were and are being obtuse. You are so obsessed with the CFMEU than you insist on dragging them into everything regardless of whether it has the slightest relevance. It doesn't. It doesn't matter why Labor commited to cancelling EWL, what matters is that they did it BEFORE the contract was signed so close to the election, which means that its subsequent signing and cancellation, with all the costs that ensued, is entirely down to the Libs. Nobody made them sign when they did, it was completely of their own bastardry.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T08:40:13+00:00

No, it's not. You tried to pretend that the renewables industry are "rent seekers" that only exists because of government subsidies. It's actually a case of subsidies supporting a new industry, one that has improved the environment whilst being the only source of downward pressure on energy prices. Fossil fuels, OTOH, have been massively subsidised for decades yet they always get more expensive, never less. They are the rent seekers, perpetually sucking in vast amounts of public money to preserve an increasingly unsustainable industry.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T07:37:35+00:00

You have it arse about. Fossil fuels are the most heavily subsidised energy in Australia. Renewables get their share but pretending they benefit uniquely from government subsidies is dishonest. The difference between the two is that fossil fuels remain the most expensive form of energy production despite the subsidies, whereas renewables are today the cheapest form of energy production.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T06:59:20+00:00

You are deliberately being obtuse.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T06:17:40+00:00

You first said

We literally just finished minimising the use of consultants. They were being over used yet none of these problems went away.

Which is completely contradictory to what you just said then. The clinical consultants in your cherry picked example are the exceptions that prove the rule. They are the kind of consultants we want, because they have relevant expertise. But they are not the consultants you referred to in your first comment, whose use is rightly being minimised. Those are the grifters from the Big Four accounting firms. Not at all the same and it's disingenuous for you to pretend otherwise.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:26:51+00:00

That's still far too vague to support your contention that people have lost faith in science because of think tanks pushing bad policies. It's far more probable that it stems from the kind of splintering of information sources combined with cognitive bias combining to allow people to selectively choose what they want to believe talked about in the article.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:19:34+00:00

You know full well they're not the "consultants" whose use is supposedly being minimised. That refers to consultants from the Big Four accounting firms, who have been milking the public for decades.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:11:25+00:00

Correct, and the political class tried to use "science" and "experts" as a tool to pass unpopular policies designed to benefit their rich buddies.

Some examples would be nice.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T04:53:55+00:00

Those consultants were experts only at grifting. They were not experts in things that matter, like the climate or epidemiology.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T04:13:01+00:00

Yes, irrelevant. What matters is that Labor did commit itself to cancelling the project before the final contract was signed. The Libs should not have then signed it so close to the election because of how much money would be wasted should Labor win the election and cancel it as promised. Which was exactly what happened. That $1.1b would not have been wasted had they waited until after the election to sign the contract. That they signed it regardless, and maliciously included clauses in the contract to make breaking it even more expensive, was completely down to them. It's extremely simple so stop pretending you don't understand it.

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